Ultimate Guide to transfer photos from or to ios device

November 25, 2015

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WHEN it comes to ios devices, sharing digital goods except photos/videos is a nightmare. Apple introduced Airdrop feature that lets you share photos between apple devices using bluetooth and wifi technologies. But the feature is still limited to the ios ecosystem. Here are some of the free ways we use to transfer photos between our devices.

The Cloud Solves it all

With Google’s introduction of Photos, managing photos between our devices is easy. The Google photos app is available for ios and android and a web version is also available. The app allows you to free up your device space by uploading all your photos to google servers where it is stored securely. It also makes your images searchable by identifying what is in that photo. If you haven’t yet tried it, give it a go!

How to transfer photos from iphone/ipad/ipod to PC/Mac ?

>> Transferring photos from ios device to your computer (wirelessly)

You can’t transfer photos from your idevice directly to your PC using bluetooth. However if your PC/Mac and iPhone are connected to the same wifi network then photo sharing would be possible. Here are the steps to share photos from iPhone to PC wirelessly.

Your photos will now be synced across your idevices provided that you have turned on icloud for photos.

How to transfer photos from ios to android or from android to ios ?

There are a couple of paid apps such as Photosync and Photo Transfer App that allows you to easily share photos across ios and android. But if you are going with the free option, then you will have to do some work.

iOS to Android

Connect your ios device and android device to your computer.

Enable mass storage option for your android phone and make sure that both the devices are displayed in “my computer”.

Open the iphone drive and navigate to the DCIM folder. Find the photo you need to transfer and copy it.

Now open your android device’s drive and paste it into the required folder.

Android to iOS

Connect your ios device and android device to your computer.

Enable mass storage option for your android phone and make sure that both the devices are displayed in “my computer”.

Open your android device’s drive, then find the photo you are looking for and copy it.

Now paste into a new folder in your computer.

Follow steps given in the above section (pc to ios device) to finish the process.

A much better option would be to save them online such as in Google Photos and later download them to your device. Other services such as dropbox, google drive, etc. can also be used for this purpose

How to transfer photos between apple devices using airdrop ?

This is the easiest of all and best. You can share photos and videos between ios devices as well as mac. Follow the steps below to share a photo using airdrop.

Turn on airdrop on both the devices.

Select the photos you want to share and hit the share sheet icon.

Tap on the user’s picture to send it to them.

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